Monday, December 21, 2015

#17

Hola! Feliz Navidad!What's up? How is everything going? Is everyone excited for Christmasthis week? I know everyone here in the OPM is super excited. We havehad a pretty awesome week here. On Tuesday, we had the chance to go tothe temple! It was a lot of fun! The Portland Temple is definitelyvery beautiful!Then on Wednesday, we performed at the Temple Visitors Center. Thatwas an interesting experience. We only practiced for it twice and theydecided to change a bunch of stuff right before we performed. I don'tthink any of us understood what was going on haha. It was still a lotof fun! I enjoyed it a lot!Then on Friday, we had our mission Christmas party! That was a lot offun! It was cool to have our whole mission in one place. There was atalent show where a lot of different elders and sisters sang andplayed instruments. Also, there was a devotional afterwards and thatwas the best! Sister Ballard gave an amazing talk on Angels. Shetalked about how we have angels watching over us on this side of theveil and the other. Then President Ballard gave an awesome talk onChristmas. He shared some of his Christmas experiences with ElderBallard when he was younger. He told us that when he was on hismission in Japan and he got to call home on Christmas, he called ElderBallard and Elder Ballard said, "Good work! Keep working hard and welove you." And then he hung up! That's all he said to him. Anyways, Ihope everyone has a great Christmas and remember why we celebrate!Elder Navarro